Chapter 877
Sect Grand Competition
Lin Wei, who was standing next to her, laughed when she heard this.
"Xiao Rou's words make a lot of sense."
Chen Feng didn't care about the two women's teasing; he was used to it.
The three of them started chatting in the coffee shop.
During this time, Chen Feng inquired about Li Xiaorou's transaction with the Moro tribe.
According to Li Xiaorou, the Moro tribe has made more than forty transactions in the past two years, with the transactions becoming more frequent over time, and each time they have sought to purchase large quantities of goods.
Especially in terms of elixirs for cultivating immortality and magical artifacts.
After asking around, Chen Feng finally understood the reason.
Although the Moro tribe purchased alchemy and related books, after two years, their mastery of both knowledge was simply appalling.
The entire Moro tribe has no more than ten members who have mastered alchemy and weapon crafting.
Therefore, the Moro tribe quickly abandoned these two skills and instead chose to purchase them directly.
Chen Feng was surprised but not entirely astonished by this.
The Moro race is entirely an evolutionary race, and they are indeed not very good at things related to knowledge.
After all, the fact that a civilization has developed for countless years without experiencing an industrial revolution like that of humankind speaks volumes.
This situation arises because of the characteristics of racial evolution.
Humans, though born weak, are capable of learning and innovation, using tools and the environment to grow stronger.
The Moro clan is strong from birth; they only need to eat and devour to become stronger, so naturally their learning ability is very poor.
"Boss, although I've reduced the amount of supplies I sell to them in the past two years, the supplies you gave me last time are almost used up."
Li Xiaorou spoke up at the right time.
Chen Feng nodded: "I'll give you another batch later. There won't be any restrictions on the sale of low-grade pills and materials anymore. Just give them as many as they want."
Since the Moro Clan doesn't intend to refine pills and forge weapons themselves, Chen Feng naturally doesn't mind selling them more.
The Moro tribe has many good things, including resources that are not found in the world of the painting.
Putting everything else aside, the value of those elemental crystals alone is extraordinary.
Lin Wei had previously told him that the production of highly concentrated antimatter required elemental crystals, and that this resource was currently only available to the Moro Clan.
Lin Wei then took out more than a dozen storage rings from her person.
"These are resources traded from the Moro tribe. I kept a portion for research, and the rest are here."
Chen Feng took the storage ring and glanced at it. Inside, there was a mountain of supplies, including a large amount of rare resources.
If we consider only the value...
The contents of these dozen or so storage rings are worth more than 30 million spirit stones.
The storage ring he gave Li Xiaorou last time contained items worth no more than 300,000 yuan worth of stones.
This is the huge profit brought about by information asymmetry.
Selling things that others don't have is always the most profitable.
It should be noted that this was only a limited sale at Chen Feng's request to Li Xiaorou. If it were sold to the Moro Clan, the profits would be even greater.
With the Moro Clan as a stable source of income, he no longer needs to worry about the Xingfeng Sect running out of Yuan Stones.
Antimatter warships and antimatter weapons can now be mass-produced.
"I'll go prepare the supplies first, and I'll come back to find you in a few days."
Chen Feng stood up; he needed to go back to the world of the painting.
Two years have passed here, but twenty years have passed in the world of the painting.
Although there are immortal corpse puppets guarding the area, and nothing major has happened in the past twenty years, I still have to go back and take a look.
"Huh? Boss, you're just leaving already? Didn't you say you were going to take us to Mars?"
Li Xiaorou's face immediately fell.
Lin Wei, who was standing nearby, advised, "Xiao Rou, since he promised, he will definitely take us there. Don't worry."
“Alright.” Although Li Xiaorou was reluctant to part with Chen Feng, she knew that preparing supplies for the Moro tribe was more important.
Chen Feng smiled and said:
"I'll be back in two weeks at most, wait for me."
After saying that, Chen Feng disappeared from the spot.
A world painted on a canvas, a vast star.
Twenty years have passed, and the changes on Canglan Star have been tremendous.
The environment of Canglan Star has reached a new level in the past twenty years.
Both spiritual energy and vital energy are abundant.
Everywhere on Canglan Star is a sacred place for cultivation.
Due to changes in the environment, the number of cultivators on Canglan Star has increased several times over in recent years.
Many new cultivation forces have emerged within Canglan Star, and Canglan Star now presents a scene of a prosperous era for cultivation.
The Xingfengmen system has also developed significantly over the past twenty years.
Today, Xingfengmen has branches and bases all over Canglan Star.
Numerous missile silos have been built within these bases and branches.
The number of missile silos has reached an astonishing 100,000.
These missile silos are connected to the internal network of the Xingfeng Gate. If an enemy invasion is detected outside Canglan Star, these ground-based missile silos can launch as many as 100,000 nuclear missiles within one minute.
In addition to the missile silos, each division is also equipped with a star destroyer cannon, with almost every division having one.
These star-destroying cannons are only used as a last resort.
This is just the weapon system on the ground.
Space stations of all sizes are almost everywhere in the orbit around Canglan Star.
Some space stations have been converted into docking ports for space carriers, while others are used as space bases.
There are more than 30,000 space carriers permanently stationed here.
More than a decade ago, Liu Qian and others made the decision to move most of the space carriers into orbit.
This also makes it easier for the fleet to enter a state of combat readiness immediately.
Besides the space station, there are also numerous satellites and space-based weapons in orbit.
There are as many as 60,000 low-orbit and high-orbit satellites combined. Today, the air conditioning system has completely broken away from traditional communication and uses satellite communication as its sole means.
The number of space-based weapons has reached more than 10,000.
These space-based weapons are not the initial ones, but rather improved second-generation ones, which are much stronger in both power and range than the first generation.
The current Canglan Star can be considered a war fortress that can move in space.
For beings below the Dao Integration level, breaking through the defenses of Canglan Star is virtually impossible.
Ten years ago, Liu Qian returned to Canglan Star to take charge, completely handing over the branch in the Underworld Continent to others.
In recent years, the name of Canglan Star has also become known to the forces within the nine star regions.
When people learned that Xingfengmen came from a small star, they were very surprised, which made them curious about how Xingfengmen rose to power.
As the investigation into Xingfengmen deepened, the information obtained shocked the major powers.
In just a few hundred years, Xingfeng Sect has grown from an unknown small force to the current star field overlord.
This is simply unbelievable!
Many people realize that Xingfengmen must have some big secret, otherwise it couldn't have developed so quickly.
Especially Chen Beijin, the sect leader of Xingfeng Sect, whose experience can only be described as unbelievable. He went from being an ordinary person to achieving such a feat in less than a few hundred years.
Even if someone were a reincarnated immortal, they probably wouldn't have such a growth rate.
Many people already believe that Chen Beijing is the number one prodigy in the nine star regions, and that it will not be long before he breaks through to the Dao Integration stage and enters the top level of the star region.
Most people in the nine star regions were unaware of Chen Feng's true strength.
The three paths of Xingfeng Sect are generally believed to be the Immortal Corpse Puppet, Xiaotong, and Yinyin.
In the minds of cultivators in the Nine Star Domains, Chen Feng was only at the half-step Dao Integration level.
Many people still believe that Chen Beijing is only at the peak of the Void Refinement stage.
But even if it's just the Void Refinement stage, it's terrifying enough.
Throughout the history of the nine star regions, there has never been a cultivator who has reached the Void Refinement stage for several hundred years, let alone someone like Chen Feng who broke through from a first-order mortal to the Void Refinement stage.
As Xingfeng Sect's influence has grown, many forces have frequently traveled to Canglan Star in recent years to visit Sect Master Chen.
Unfortunately, twenty years ago, this Master Chen announced that he had gone into seclusion.
He has not shown up yet.
This disappointed many cultivators who went to Canglan Star.
Xingfeng Sect didn't pay much attention to the various discussions from the outside world, and they didn't stop outside cultivators from coming to Canglan Star.
Now that Xingfeng Sect has established itself in the nine star regions, it naturally doesn't need to be as cautious as before.
At this moment, Xingfengmen was bustling with activity.
The square in front of the main hall of Xingfengmen was packed with a dense crowd, both in the air and on the ground.
Today is the day of the Xingfengmen (行风门) youth generation competition.
The Grand Competition is an event that Xingfengmen started ten years ago and is held every three years.
Any Xingfeng Sect disciple under the age of thirty with a cultivation level no lower than Foundation Establishment can apply to participate.
The top ten finishers in the competition will receive generous rewards.
This activity was proposed by Wang Fengnuo and Liu Qian.
Liu Qian naturally did not refuse and entrusted the matter entirely to Wang Fengnuo.
This is also a form of decentralization.
The Xingfeng Sect now has a new generation of young people, just like other factions. Some of these people's fathers were from the Xingfeng Sect, and they were born and raised in the Xingfeng Sect, making them direct descendants of the sect.
Others are geniuses recruited from outside in recent decades.
Such sect competitions are a common occurrence in other factions.
However, Xingfengmen had never been established before, for many reasons. Previously, Xingfengmen had very few members, and its development time was short, so the people it recruited were not young people.
Furthermore, since the Xingfeng Sect at that time had very few martial artists and cultivators, it was definitely difficult to hold such a sect competition.
But now, a hundred years have passed, and Xingfeng Sect has the same foundation as other major cultivation sects. It also has no shortage of young disciples, so it can naturally hold such a sect competition.
The main hall square is divided into ten suspended arenas.
On these ten suspended arenas, cultivators are engaged in fierce battles.
In the Xingfeng Sect's arena matches, aside from the prohibition of high-powered weapons, power armor and kinetic firearms are permitted.
The rules were set by Wang Fengnuo. In her view, Xingfengmen was not a pure cultivation sect, but a combination of technology and cultivation.
This kind of competition greatly increases the uncertainty.
With the addition of technological weapons, fighting against opponents of higher levels is now commonplace.
The competition has been going on for several days, and today is the last day, the day when the top ten will be decided.
Therefore, the competition that day was exceptionally fierce.
This competition wasn't just being watched by people from the Xingfeng Sect headquarters; at least a hundred drones were hovering in the sky, broadcasting the sect competition live.
The live stream was watched by various branches of Xingfengmen and people on missions outside.
Liu Qian and Beaver, along with other elders, did not participate in this sect competition, leaving it entirely to Wang Fengnuo and other elders to manage.
On an antimatter warship, Liu Qian, Beaver, Yue Yao, and others gathered together.
The crowd watched the fight below while discussing it.
"Beaver, who do you think will win this competition?"
He Menghan looked at the beaver and asked.
He Menghan is now considered a veteran of Xingfeng Sect. Currently, she is in charge of Xingfeng Sect branches in various locations on Canglan Star, and has truly entered the core circle. Not long ago, she also successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.
Beaver glanced at the stands below and said with a smile:
"There's a good chance it's two people: Tang Xiaoxiao and Chang Yan."
Upon hearing this, He Menghan said in surprise:
“Tang Xiaoxiao is Elder Yun’s disciple, so I’m not surprised that you value her. But Chang Yan doesn’t seem to have anything special about him, and his cultivation level is only at the early stage of Golden Core. There are quite a few late stage Golden Core cultivators in the top ten.”
The beaver looked on with amusement:
"Sister He, how about we make a bet? I'll bet that Chang Yan can get first place, what do you say?"
He Menghan became interested: "What kind of bet?"
Seeing this, Yue Yao, who had been silent until now, quickly said, "I want to bet too!"
Beaver completely ignored Yue Yao and instead looked at He Menghan, saying:
"If I win, the next time you see the sect leader, you should take the initiative to hug him, okay? But I have to make it clear that it must be the sect leader in his true form, not his puppet clone."
Hearing this, He Menghan blushed immediately.
She wouldn't dare take such a gamble.
Yue Yao, standing next to her, became excited:
"I bet! Beaver, if you lose, you'll revert to your original form and bark like a dog in front of the sect leader!"
Upon hearing this, Beaver's face darkened immediately, and she directly unleashed a burst of spiritual energy at Yue Yao.
The spiritual energy transformed into ropes that bound Yue Yao's body, rendering her completely immobile.
"No one will think you're mute if you don't speak. Did I say I wanted to bet with you?" Beaver said angrily. Seemingly still not satisfied, she took out a leather whip from her storage ring and lashed it directly at Yue Yao.
Fortunately, Yue Yao now has a mechanical body, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to withstand that whip.
Yue Yao glared at the beaver, her eyes wide with anger: "Fine, I won't gamble then! Why are you attacking me? Yan Yue, save me!"
Upon hearing this, Nangong Yanyue, who was standing to the side, immediately reached out and gently touched the ground.
The spiritual energy rope that had bound Yue Yao disappeared instantly.
Beaver glanced at Nangong Yan Yue, who had made the move, but said nothing. Although she had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.
But Nangong Yanyue had already reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and she was no match for her.
The people nearby showed no change in expression when they saw this.
The two girls often bickered like this, and they were used to it.
Seeing that the two were about to fight, Liu Qian couldn't help but step in to smooth things over:
“If you’re going to bet, bet on something else, not something so weird. I’ll put up 10,000 contribution points and bet on Tang Xiaoxiao to win.”
Seeing that Liu Qian had spoken, Beaver and Yue Yao stopped arguing.
"Alright, let's bet contribution points then. I'll bet on Chang Yan, and I'll play along no matter how many contribution points you bet." Beaver seemed very confident.
Yue Yao immediately said:
"I'm betting on Tang Xiaoxiao to win. I'll give you 10,000 contribution points. You'll lose everything!"
Just then, Chen Feng's voice suddenly rang out beside them:
"What should we bet on?"
Upon hearing the sound, the group immediately looked in the direction of the noise.
Suddenly, Chen Feng appeared beside them, smiling broadly. (End of Chapter)